Project IPv6: preparing for the new internet
Named World IPv6 Day, June 8 is an awareness day to acknowledge the trillions of new IP addresses now available after the previous...
5 ways to improve IT project cost management
The often quoted 2003 Chaos report from the Standish Group indicated an average cost blowout of 43% on IT projects; other studies such as...
Improving value through lean construction
Imagine transforming unreliable and unaccountable supply and production chain participants into value adding team members. Picture your...
Project cost management and the PMO
We require our project managers submit status reports on time, adhere to company methodology, come under budget, meet baseline go-live,...
Project: The Australian Defence Force in East Timor
Studies on successful project management show that it is people—rather than time, money or quality of product—that makes the biggest...
Project costs in translation
Project managers are expected to complete a project within budget, and to do this they monitor actual cost reports against planned budget...
Decision-making for project managers
Indecision can happen to anyone, and often occurs when you least expect it. The pause that takes place when you are in the midst of making...
Risk management under PMO governance
Disasters are generally unpredictable but an advanced PMO may be able to assist governance by raising risk management to the next level....
Project management at the speed of thought
"Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of...
Review: The Business of Being an Athlete—Kerri Pottharst
It’s difficult to read beach volleyballer Kerri Pottharst's The Business Of Being An Athlete and not be motivated to pull out a piece of...